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school for girls, and besides this there is a 

 school of fruit-culture, which is taught prac- 

 tically and scientifically. In this interesting 

 old town, Andreas Kurtz spent the first 

 thirteen years of his life. 



If there be any truth in the saying, 

 11 Children are what their mothers are," his 

 own future career, and that of his brothers 

 and sisters, for there were eight or nine of 

 them altogether, must be traced to that old 

 Swabian home, and especially to the influence 

 of the mother. She was a very remarkable 

 woman, and although she had passed through 

 the terrors and hardships inflicted by war, 

 had seen her home destroyed, her family 

 ruined, and her children scattered, survived 

 to hear of the revival of her house in the 

 east and in the west. Two younger members 

 of the family migrated to Southern Russia, 

 and settling in Odessa won by their energy, 

 ability, and character, positions of opulence, 

 honour, and rank. The mother lived to the 

 age of 97. 



France, with her Louis XVI. and his 

 queen, Mary Antoinette, occupied the most 

 prominent position in the European situation, 

 and in Paris was to be found all that was 

 most brilliant in literature and science. 



